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LAW’S or MISSISSIPPI______183a. 439 AN ACT, further Co define and establish the boundary line between the counties of Jackson and Hancock. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature qf the state of Mississippi^ That the dividing line between the counties of Jackson and Hancock shall be as follows, to wit: beginning at the point or place called the Old French Fort, on the bay of Biloxie, where the line that divides the eighth and ninth ranges strikes the same ; thence running north with said line to the fourth parallel township line, south of the line of demarcation; thence running west with said township line, to the western boundary line of the tenth range; thence running north with said boundary line to the south boundary of the county of Perry, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, February 25, 1833.
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